POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
This results from the passive effects of an elevated left atrial pressure due to mitral valve disease or prolonged left ventricular failure. If it persists, pulmonary artery pressure gradually increases above that explained by passive transmission of the elevated outflow pressure. Initially this increase is due to reflex vasoconstriction, but eventually vascular remodeling occurs. This additional contribution to pulmonary hypertension can be quantified by the increasing gradient between the pulmonary diastolic pressure and the left atrial pressure.
- DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON CARDIAC FUNCTION
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- Sarcoidosis
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- SPECIFIC ENTITIES - DISEASES WITH KFiOWIi ETIOLOGIES -
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Pulmonary Hemorrhagic Disorders
- TREATMENT
- POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- HYPERKINETIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Other Clearly Extrinsic Causes of Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
- EMBOLIC DISEASE
- Miscellaneous
- EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION